Maddog43

Can anyone shed any light on the problem I am having with my car's driver door control module please. The problem started with smoke coming from my wing mirror whilst I was driving and then the fuse blew, I thought it may have been something to do with the mirror heater burning out but then I noticed my central locking wouldn't work and then my windows wouldn't open... Then my dashboard display came up with the message "Driver Assist Button Faulty". Thinking the button module on the driver's door handle was faulty, I bought a replacement but it didn't fix the problem so I tx0hen took the door panel off to inspect the wiring and found a major problem, the wires going to the control module were melted to the point that the two main red/brown wires had no plastic shielding for about 30mm from the socket, and the two bear copper wirers were stuck together, and the stock (the one with the red release tab in the middle of the three bottom sockets) had melted to the main body, and the module itself is showing signs of burning out. i now need to buy a new loom, and a new control module, the part number on the unit is 8X0-969-793-E H09, I found one on e-bay with the same part number but when I look at the pin-outs of the replacement module, they are different My existing pin-outs on this socket are 1, (2&3 missing), 4,5,6,7,8,9 on the bottom row, then 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 on the top row The replacement pins on this socket are 1, (2,3,4 missing) 5,6,7,8 (9 missing) on the bottom row, then 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 on the top row Is there another number on the module that I need to check to make sure the part I want is the part I order? Cheers Paul

Hi bigjohn, I agree with you my MKII is transverse, I was talking about my son's Mk1 that now has 225,000 miles on it and still running like a dream :-) Hope my engine does as many miles :-)

Hi, thanks K for the input :-) If I am correct the photo's look like they are the feeds to the confort control module located down on the floor under the carpet in the passenger side footwell, would make sense if water is coming in through the pollen filter in the engine bay :-) We have had weeks and weeks of rain down in Cornwall so its mostly likely water has got in. I will begin the investigation and have the trusty WD40 and a hair dryer with me just in case :-) Will post an update when I have checked it out :-) cheers

Hi Everyone, I need a bit of help if anyone can assist. I have a Superb MK1 1.9tdi 130 Elegance which is developing a few annoying electrical issues, everything from one day the interior light stapped working, then a few months later the front windows stopped working (that now fixed when I changed the drivers motor and switch set) and now then you turn the indictors to the left or right, nada not even a flicker or sound from the control unit, but when I put the hazzards on both left and right indicators flash and the clicking noise from the control unit is heard? Not sure if its the indicator stalk on the steering columb or if there a problem else where. Oh and today the left side dipped beam, high beam and fog light stopped working, I changed the bulbs and the high beam, side light works but the dipped beam still not working, the dipped beam is using a Osram Xenon HID bulbs so has the added complication of the high voltage igniter to add to the possible faults (not sure how you even test this bit of kit). Any help would be appricatied :-)

Hi, I drive a Superb MK2 2.0 170BHP Elegance Hatchback with 128,000 mils but it's a baby compared to 400,000km, I bought mine after my son bought a MK1 and I liked the car, yesterday his flew through it's immissions test with 206,000 miles on it, not even a hint of any problems, garage engineer said it's engine is one brittiant engine mounted length-ways in the Superb because it cools properly, same engine in a Golf mounted traversly is done by about 160,000 miles because the rear of the engine never cools properly/ I'll take his word for it :-)

this is a bit of an old one, baud rate is the term used for the speed at which data is passed (usually down a serial cable) between one device to another, so a 9600 baud rate means 9600 bit of data can be passed down the cable, a baud rate error is usually because of a) there is a break in the cable, b) the connection between contacts isn't a good one c) the two devices are not communicating at the same baud rate, for example a laptop comms set at 9600 and the device only capable of communicating at 400 baud would generate a baud rate error message, the slower device cannot be speeded up but the fast device can be slowed down via the comm port settings. Today modern data transfer works in terms of Mega bit (million bit) or giga bit (1000 million bit) per second using pararell data exchange. Hope that helps some of you younger guys that never had to suffer the old serial data tranfer speeds :-)